You should either work in a comedy club (something I wanted to do but was too chicken because I am not that funny), or you should immediately replace David Letterman, assuming you are faithful to Mrs. Grumpy, or better than DL at concealing your lapses.

You DON'T mess around with your patients or your nurses, right?

Maybe the yaks are keeping an eye on you. On the other hand, maybe you are messing around with the yaks.

Can you please give me any tips on how it is that you don't lose your own mind dealing with such idiots?? Because, I find myself getting all worked up and frustrated and they could care less. I would have written those answers in and sent the form--but then again I seem to get myself in more trouble than I probably should.

you know what is really sad...these types of forms are fishing for a reason to fire this guy. "Sorry Bob driving that cart is a vital part of your job description and we just can't accommodate your disability without putting extreme stress on the company, enjoy unemployment!"

The people that come up with these forms leave me bemused. But, as I read this, all I can think of is my poor husband who is surrounded by coworkers who insist that they cannot fill out these forms because they don't know how!

I have e-mailed this post to him with the thought that he might print out and circulate it as a primer for them.

My husband while working for a small company actually had an employee who lied about having epilepsy that he hired. The problem was the job involved climbing up ladders into suspended ceilings fifteen feet above the ground or factory floors 60 feet above the ground to run cabling for computers, phones, and involved driving anywhere from 10 miles to several across three states to get from job sites to install, repair, replace cabling and computer components etc. The problem was now you had to pay somebody for a job where 90% of the work they were hired to do, they couldn't or shouldn't because insurance wouldn't cover him in any falls or driving of company vehicles. There was no other job to switch him to in the company and due to state and federal laws they couldn't fire him. Awkward isn't it. But I still think you're funny.

Wouldnt your husband have checked his drivers license before he hired him because he would be driving company vehicles?? Anyone with dx of current Epilepsy should have a suspended drivers license. At least here in Fla it is. Just wondering.

The guy who lied on his application to get hired, lied to get a drivers lisense, and first words out of his mouth after his first grand mal seizure was, "If you fire me, I'll sue."Just what you want in an employee!

I know what you mean about the forms. For patients, it's bad too. I've found a good PCP now but when I was searching for a good dr, and they would ask for my name and address on every page, I would simply write "See page 1" every time.

When I handed it in, sometimes they tossed it back at me, sometimes not.

Dear Dr. Grumpy,I seriously just spent 30 minutes cleaning up the coffee I spewed all over my screen when I read this. Thanks for making the day of a work comp CM bud! Can you please relocate to my area now? We seriously need you.

Chuckr44: What if a page comes out of your file? Wouldn't it be better if they could figure out what file to put it back into? I have no problem at all with unique identifying information on every page.

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